This pair of houses may be datable to about 1770 when a larger frontage was
said to be 'lately built'. The front wall was rebuilt or at least stucco-faced
in the mid nineteenth century, when No. 12 housed plumbers, and No. 10
booksellers. Buck & Hickman, tool-makers based on the Whitechapel Road-
Adler Street corner, later took No. 12 and No. 10 was long a
printer–stationer’s. The building was refronted again in stark red brick,
probably around 1998. Interiors appear to have been comprehensively altered.
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